Abu Anas al-Libi: The swift Delta Force operation in the streets of the Libyan capital that seized the militant known as Abu Anas al-Libi was one of two assaults Saturday that showed an American determination to move directly against terror suspects even in two nations mired in chaos where the U.S. has suffered deadly humiliations in the past, according to Times Colonist. "We hope that this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in the effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday at an economic summit in Indonesia. "Members of al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations literally can run but they can't hide." A suspected Libyan al-Qaida figure nabbed by U.S. special forces in a dramatic operation in Tripoli was living freely in his homeland for the past two years, after a trajectory that took him to Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran, where he had been detained for years, his family said Sunday. The Libyan government bristled at the raid, asking Washington to explain the "kidnapping." Hours before the Libya raid, a Navy SEAL team swam ashore in the East African nation of Somalia and engaged in a fierce firefight, though it did not capture its target, a leading militant in the al-Qaida-linked group that carried out the recent Kenyan mall siege. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Armando Perez: "I call my daughter every week, even if it's just for her to say, 'Papi, I love you,'" said Perez, a thin man who left the island on a boat in 2008, according to Times Colonist. "They need to go back to Cuba to see their family," Benitez said. "I don't understand because my parents are here. Maybe if they were in Cuba I would go back." MIAMI - At a small store on Eighth Street near Miami's Little Havana, Armando Perez paid $25 to activate his daughter's cellphone in Cuba. Store owner Laura Benitez sat behind a glass window, typing in the phone numbers for Perez and others calling Cuba. Benitez, who fled with her parents shortly after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, doesn't have family in Cuba. Many of her clients, however, grew up under the communist system and immigrated in the last 10 years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

William Marks: This was one of the central thrusts of a novel legal position advanced by lawyer William Marks in the Court of Queen's Bench Thursday as he fought a losing battle to see a young aboriginal client with a learning disability given a sixth shot at freedom pending trial. 'Constrained circumstances' and 'moral culpability', according to Winnipeg Free Press and Placing disadvantaged aboriginal people accused of crimes on "Eurocentric" bail rules divorced from the realities of their lives and backgrounds only further criminalizes them and exposes them to unjust stints in jail, a Winnipeg defence lawyer has argued. GLADUE -- THE WHY AND THE WHAT IN LESS THAN 200 WORDS (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada: Halifax council should give the green light to the municipalitys signing of a proposed immigration-services agreement with Ottawa, city staff have recommended, according to The Chronicle Herald. Regional council is to consider the recommendation Tuesday at its meeting at city hall and A municipal staff report says the $146,472 deal with Citizenship and Immigration Canada would be for three years, and is intended to support a part-time staff person and administrative costs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Leonardo Ricci: LAMPEDUSA, Italy - An Italian government minister born in Africa watched wordlessly Sunday as soldiers wearing face masks carried body bags containing migrants from her continent who perished when a fishing boat transporting 500 asylum seekers from Eritrea sank within sight of the tiny island of Lampedusa. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Search operations will continue "as long as the sea is calm and there is light," police Maj. Leonardo Ricci said. Lampedusa Mayor Giusy Nicolini, right, is flanked by Italian Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge during a news conference at the Lampedusa island, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. Authorities say divers have recovered new bodies from a fiery shipwreck of a fishing boat packed with 500 migrants from Eritrea. Financial police Maj. Leonardo Ricci said divers have recovered about 10 bodies since resuming the search Sunday morning. He said the search and recovery would continue "as long as the sea is calm and there is light." The search had been suspended for the last two days due to rough seas. As many as 250 people remain missing from Thursday's shipwreck. There are 155 survivors and 111 bodies recovered. AP Photo/Luca Bruno Divers recovered 70 more bodies after seas calmed enough to resume search operations after a two-day suspension, increasing the death toll to at least 181. More than 150 others are presumed to be missing, trapped in the wreckage about 50 metres 165 feet below the surface. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

al-Qaida: A suspected Libyan al-Qaida figure nabbed by U.S. special forces in a dramatic operation in Tripoli was living freely in his homeland for the past two years, after a trajectory that took him to Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran, where he had been detained for years, his family said Sunday. The Libyan government bristled at the raid, asking Washington to explain the "kidnapping." , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Hours before the Libya raid, a Navy SEAL team swam ashore in the East African nation of Somalia and engaged in a fierce firefight, though it did not capture its target, a leading militant in the al-Qaida-linked group that carried out the recent Kenyan mall siege. FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-Shabab fighters just outside Mogadishu prepare to travel into the city in pickup trucks after vowing there would be new waves of attacks against Ethiopian troops. International military forces carried out a pre-dawn strike Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, against foreign fighters in the same southern Somalia village where U.S. Navy SEALS four years ago killed a most-wanted al-Qaida operative, officials said. The strike comes exactly two weeks after al-Shabab militants attacked Nairobi's Westgate Mall, a four-day terrorist assault that killed at least 67 people in neighboring Kenya. Al-Shabab has a formal alliance with al-Qaida, and hundreds of foreign fighters from the U.S., Britain and Middle Eastern countries fight alongside Somali members of al-Shabab. AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File The swift Delta Force operation in the streets of the Libyan capital that seized the militant known as Abu Anas al-Libi was one of two assaults Saturday that showed an American determination to move directly against terror suspects even in two nations mired in chaos where the U.S. has suffered deadly humiliations in the past. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Mental Health Commission of Canada: The Aspiring Workforce report, commissioned by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, delves into the challenges facing those Canadians, targeting all levels of government, businesses, policy-makers and the not-for-profit sector in addition to the attitudes of Canadians themselves towards those who suffer from mental illness, according to CTV. "This report represents hope, it really does, for many people who are voiceless," Patrick Dion, vice-chairman of the commission, said in an interview and OTTAWA -- Ninety per cent of Canadians with serious mental illnesses are unemployed due largely to prejudice about their conditions -- a startling state of affairs that costs the Canadian economy an estimated $50 billion a year, according to a sweeping new report. Obtained by The Canadian Press, the report -- conducted by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the University of Toronto and Queen's University -- recommends collaboration among all sectors to find work for mentally ill Canadians, many of whom have training and skills. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Mental Health Commission of Canada: The Aspiring Workforce report, commissioned by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, delves into the challenges facing those Canadians, targeting all levels of government, businesses, policy-makers and the not-for-profit sector in addition to the attitudes of Canadians themselves towards those who suffer from mental illness, according to Times Colonist. "This report represents hope, it really does, for many people who are voiceless," Patrick Dion, vice-chairman of the commission, said in an interview and OTTAWA - Ninety per cent of Canadians with serious mental illnesses are unemployed due largely to prejudice about their conditions a startling state of affairs that costs the Canadian economy an estimated $50 billion a year, according to a sweeping new report. Obtained by The Canadian Press, the report conducted by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the University of Toronto and Queen's University recommends collaboration among all sectors to find work for mentally ill Canadians, many of whom have training and skills. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Glynis Logue: It's tempting to consider the sunflowers either an ad hoc horticultural nod to the booming suburb's agrarian past, or a decorative seasonal choice on the part of museum staff, soaking up the remaining warms rays of sun as fall drifts towards winter. It's neither. Like everything else here in the museum's 25-acre back lot, it's art, courtesy Glynis Logue, the likes of which the Markham museum has rarely seen, according to The Star. Landslide , an exhibition of 31 artists or collectives, all of them living, most of them young, took over, repurposing heritage buildings and inculcating the museum's display spaces and An irregular row of sunflowers snakes through the grassy back acres of the Markham Museum, which is populated by re-located buildings rescued from various former farmlands long-since repurposed into strip malls and subdivisions. At the end of last month, the museum, given, as many regional museums are, mostly to folksy exhibitions of local lore and occasionally perplexing objects from their archive on a recent visit, the shelves displayed a pair of golf shoes and a yard stick changed completely. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Shared Services Canada: A pilot project, launched April 9, enabled the online filing of access-to-information and privacy requests, and the electronic payment of fees, according to CTV. The pilot currently includes just three departments -- Treasury Board, Shared Services Canada, and Citizenship and Immigration -- but the service will eventually be expanded to cover all of government over the next few years and OTTAWA, Ont. -- The federal government plans to expand its web portal for online information requests, with 16 new departments added over the next six months. It offers citizens a digital alternative to a paper-based system dating from the early 1980s. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.